This week I take a look at the most popular of the infamous Tapbots app range, Tweetbot, a stylish, easy to use and cleverly designed Twitter client that blows all its competitors out of the water. To start off, Twitter has, and will always be, a very weird and interesting part of the Internet for me. Millions of people posting pics, sharing stories and having conversations in 140 characters or less.Rich Mulholland once said, and I still believe it is ...

Seventy-one percent of online Americans were using video-sharing sites such as YouTube and Vimeo as of May, up from 66 percent a year ago and 33 percent five years ago, according to the survey by the Pew Research Center’s Internet and American Life Project.Read more on Gearburn.com

It has been revealed that the perpetrator of the recent horror massacre in Oslo may have been influenced by a right-wing South African blog, reports online publisher News24.It has come to light that Anders Behring Breivik, the man behind the Oslo bombings and mass shootings, borrowed heavily from several sources, including the controversial blog iluvsa. The blog is hosted by Google's blog service, Blogger.In Breivik's rambling 1 500-page Manifesto on Western Civilisation, there is a link to what he calls ...

The US military is surrendering to YouTube. Less than three years after its launch, the Pentagon is shutting down TroopTube, a video-sharing site set up for US soldiers and their families.A statement posted on the home page of TroopTube said it would close on 31 July.TroopTube was launched in November 2008 at a time when many members of the US armed forces were restricted from using YouTube.Its stated mission was to be "an online video site designed to help military ...

Just when you thought it was safe to concenrate on your work and not be distracted by anything on the interwebs, Old Spice proves you wrong. Fabio, the "new" Old Spice guy has challenged the "old" Old Spice guy, Isaiah Mustafa, to a duel. So if you have plans for Tuesday, July 26th 12pm EST (5pm GMT), cancel them because this promises to be interesting.Italian male model/actor, Fabio, who appeared on the cover of hundreds of romance novels throughout ...

There was little the rest of the world could do but sit back and watch in shock as the events in Oslo unfolded on the afternoon of 22 July. While we tried to digest the news of the bomb blast in central Oslo, news began filtering in of an even worse occurrence -- a mass shooting at youth summer camp.In the hours and days after the tragedy, we started to learn more about the twisted world of ...

If you're a writer of any stripe you will have come across numerous recommendations for Scrivener as the ultimate tool for collating research, scribbling down ideas and finding the structure of the story you're trying to tell.In fact, though it's marketed as software for novelists, Scrivener's powerful feature set is a boon to anyone who needs to wrangle large amounts of information.I've used Scrivener almost exclusively since 2007, so when I made the switch from journalism to user ...

Social Media has been vaunted as the ultimate go-to marketing tool of our age. It has been said that if you are not involved in some level of social media marketing with your organisation, then you are missing the boat and your business prospects are going to sail away without you. What is not being spoken about so freely, however, are the extremely large social media marketing FAILS.How can it all go wrong? One of the best examples of how social ...

A significant part of my day is spent maintaining my profiles on my social networks: Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and now Google+.Some of my time spent in these networks is genuinely useful but a lot of it is spent in housekeeping chores, I'm constantly peppered with tasks: approve these friends, like these pages, it's Joe Smith's birthday wish him happy birthday, someone commented on a post you commented on, you were tagged in this post/photo...Sometimes it feels like I should spend ...

Microsoft has been forced to apologise for a "tweet" which has been blasted as a blatant attempt to cash in on the death of 27-year-old British singer Amy Winehouse.Microsoft became the target of online ire over the weekend after the same Twitter account posted an update inviting people to remember Winehouse by buying digital versions of her "Back to Black" album at Zune.The Zune website is Microsoft's online store for downloading music, films and other entertainment content to computers, smartphones, ...